Nelson Irrigation Corporation (Nelson) has introduced its 3030 series pivot sprinklers which feature its new 3NV nozzle
Ghana has been urged to join the International Poultry Council (IPC) by its president James Sumner, who is also president of the USA Poultry and Egg Export Council (USAPEC)
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced plans to invest US$24bn to support the implementation of the continent’s agricultural transformation agenda
According to the World Health Organisation, Campylobacter jejuni ranks as the top cause of food-borne bacterial diarrhoeal disease in the developed world, with chicken serving as the most common source...
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the African Union (AU) and their partner have agreed to support the food and agriculture system to operate during periods...
Ethiopia has received a US$84.3mn grant funding from the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) to advance wheat production and increase farmers' incomes
Inmarsat, global mobile satellite communications provider, has joined forces with RESOLVE, the Washington DC-based non-profit environmental and health organisation, to develop a satellite-enabled solution to safeguard endangered wildlife across Africa
Uganda has launched a new project to explore increased use of roots, tubers and bananas (RTBs) and agricultural technologies to reduce post-harvest losses in the country
Rwanda’s beverage firm Bralirwa has secured a US$25mn loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for maize production
The origin of a deadly wheat pathogen which threatens a vital global food source has been identified by an international team of academic researchers including two professors from the University...
Valmont Industries, a provider of engineered products and services for infrastructure and irrigation equipment and services for agriculture, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Prospera Technologies, a leading...
FAO has said that farming and rural non-farm-based activities have potential to generate employment opportunities for Africa’s rising youth population
Zimbabwean farmers will receive agricultural equipment worth US$38mn from Brazil under the ‘More Food Africa’ programme to be used during the 2014-15 summer cropping season
As part of the UAE’songoing humanitarian works across the world, the UAE has initiated a project in Liberia to help rural women achieve sustainable income, food security and nutrition opportunities
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved US$70mn loan to finance Namibia’s agricultural mechanisation and seed improvement project (NAMSIP)
Despite having been introduced into only recently in Rwanda, quail farming has become popular among farmers in the Eastern Province
The World Bank plans to invest more than US$5bn over the next five years to help restore degraded landscapes, improve agriculture productivity, and promote livelihoods across 11 African countries on...
First Quantum Minerals (FQM) will recruit more than 1,000 Zambian farmers into modern conservation farming by 2015 with the aim of improving food security in the country's North-Western Province
Staffordshire agricultural incinerator manufacturer Addfield Environmental Systems has introduced a highly flexible solution for large broiler houses and poultry farms with the release and installation of the first A50L in...
Three African agri-tech start-ups have been chosen to be part of an incubation programme meant to educate them on business know-how and bring up the condition of agriculture